This book presents the stationeries and self-promotional tools of design offices, creative agencies, photo studio, stylists’ office, illustrators’ offices and architects offices along with snap shots of their work environments. Those well-designed business cards, envelopes, letterheads, cannot only be used for a promotional purpose but also represent creators’ originalities and principles, which shows the intimate connection with their stationeries and work offices. Many creators and professionals must enjoy the book by discovering a great example with every turn of the pages. It’s a good resource for opening a new office and is full of ideas for self-promotions.

This book introduces about 97 shops in Paris, which is an inseparable part of Paris and its culture. Featured shops do not only contribute to fashion, arts and popular culture, but also play as a vital part of daily lives. This title shows shop designs and graphic tools of those shops such as a contemporary café and/or restaurant being combined well with traditional design, a rococo style variety shop in a romantic setting and trendy boutiques, which function as a major role in Paris to draw millions of visitors each year. This book is what designers, creators and professionals should keep as a great reference along with the London edition,"Shop Image Graphics in London" (ISBN:978-4-89444-583-3)

This book presents powerful designs achieved by one or two colors, and one color with colored paper. The limited-color projects in this book help designers not only proceed a limited-budget project but also give strong impact on readers because of unusual combination of the colors and papers. Useful information of pantone numbers/process colors are accompanied with the projects.
*This is the reprint edition of “Design Ideas with Limited Color: 4-89444-331-7” published in May 2004 in Japan.

As the fourth title of the “Traditional Patterns in Japanese Design” series on “Wave, Cloud, Pine”, “Flower, Bird” and “Women,” this book shows other popular motifs, which are animals, birds, insects, fishes. Along those existing animals tigers, bears, deer, dogs, cats, sheep, pigeons, butterflies, carps and some more, imaginary beasts like dragons are presented as well. Featured works dated from the 15th century to the present are included.

A market research shows that attractive graphics and designs are as important as appropriate verse for a successful advertising greeting card. This book presents those distinguished and successful commercial used greeting cards collected from the worldwide. Each attractive graphic design shows stylish, innovative, colorful and visually stunning, and those creative and astonished works such as 3-dimensional ones and ones using unique materials have a great impact on readers. With a full of inspirational ideas, graphic designers and creative professionals will be thrilled when they turn the page. It’s a great reference for their next greeting card design.

From an advertising campaign about a new model of a car to a package design of a cosmetic bottle, this book presents “the best of the best projects in graphic design,” which will inspire creative professionals and adverting communities. Featured inspirational works help those people and designers come up with even more brilliant idea for future assignments and projects. This is a must-have resource book for designers as well as marketing and advertising professionals.

A product package is designed strategically to maximize the brand recognition and appeal to the sales targets. A package design takes on an important role in determining the product image. This book introduces many, exciting packages and wrapping examples categorized by industry. The photos of shop interior/exterior design are also included so that those photos would give readers ideas how a product package would harmonize the shop interior and exterior design. Examples of seasonal wrapping at department stores, retailers and various shops are also presented.

This is more than a book. 30 pop-up sheets held together by two screws bound in the book are easy to take out. People can change orders of the sheets, or use each pop-up sheet for a greeting card for someone you care for or a hanging ornament in your room.

Miyuki Yoshida, a Japanese professional paper engineer, created 30 sheets hoping that people can find their own way of enjoying the book. Each pop-up sheet is minimally designed using simple colors picked up among cyan, magenta, yellow or blue, the basic printing process colors. The delicate paper-cutting and folding work changes its look depending on the angle when it is unfolded.” You will see how a sheet of paper turned it into a piece of artwork,” Yoshida commented.

This is a reprint edition of “Paper Folding for POP-UP,” (ISBN: 978-4-89444- 517-8 US$59.00.) The contents are unchanged from the previous edition, but this new edition does NOT come with a CD-ROM.

“Free paper” is already established as one of the major media these days, and the competition is even getting fierce among the same medium. The selected free papers in this book are all unique in editorial concept, design or promotional strategies, and you will learn how each paper has acquired the readership and why they are commercially successful.The free papers are grouped by type of content; local, lifestyle, culture and others. Each magazine is presented with the cover and its interior page designs.

One of the most popular motif for paintings is a beautiful woman, and many Ukiyoe (Japanese woodblock prints) artist including Kitagawa Utamaro (喜多川 歌麿) and Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎) during the Edo period (1603 - 1867) portray beautiful women. This type of Japanese art form flourish during the time, and the city of Edo become a center of politics as well as culture. After the Edo period, the following Ukiyoe artists like Kiyokata Kaburagi (鏑木 清方), Ito Shinsui (伊東深水) and Uemura Shoen (上村松園) produce great woman pictures. This book introduces masterpieces of those portraits of beautiful women from the Edo period to present.